Extreme Store Hunting

22 Sept --- Today, I wanted to explore.  So my friend Vanessa and I set out to explore the Lambeth area.  We walked down the street, discovered a nice but expensive-looking Italian restaurant, and then found a Tesco.  Which is a grocery store like Sainsburys and Morrisons, but not as cheap.  Even so, it's close and HUGE and quite nice, actually.

Then I had my Internship Orientation, which has me a little nervous for my internship.  My interview was pushed back until Friday so now I have the entirety of Thursday to myself.  So maybe I'll find a library and see if I can print out an updated version of my resume and see what else is going on around campus.

I returned from the orientation, IM'd Ali a bit, and then had the brilliant idea to Google Morrisons, which is apparently a really cheap grocery store.  So I did and found in the Lambeth area about a mile away, or a twenty minute walk from the dorm.  So I told Vanessa about it (because she kept complaining how Tesco wasn't as cheap as Morrisons earlier) and she wanted to go right away.  So we did. 

I find it really amusing that she's amazed by my ability to read maps.  Doesn't anyone else have this?  Really?  You plot out a route and then follow the street signs.  Landmarks too.  It's not that hard.

Anyway, we got there, we walked back, and then I started making dinner at nine.  Late dinner?  Yeah.  It also took forever to cook because the stove doesn't heat up very hot very fast so the water couldn't boil (I was making pasta).  So I decided to cook the pasta in the microwave and just heat the sauce in the saucepan because, you know, it's a saucepan -- it's what it does.  And that took forever.  Which is very unfortunate, but I ate some fruit while I waited.

Vanessa is originally from Nigeria and moved to Leeds sometime during her life.  She has a brother, but I don't know his age.  She also likes pop music, Hilary Duff and Katy Perry and Beyonce and some Lady Gaga and the like.  Have you ever heard a Nigerian accent with a British twang?  I always ask her to repeat herself.  She might be annoyed but I hope she understand that her accent is completely different than what I am used to.  I've never heard a Nigerian-British accent before!  O_O

And that was my day.